MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 163 
Pie lu:—Other names: $% ff tsie ku (join together 
broken bones), #§ $F lung tou. The su tuan grows in the 
mountain-valleys of Ch‘ang shan [in Chi li, App. 8]. It is 
gathered in the 7th and 8th months and dried in the shade. 
Wu P‘v [8rd cent.]:—It is produced in Liang chou 
[in Ho nan, App. 187]. 
The descriptions of the su tuan given by authors of 
_ various times are confused and contradictory, and no conclu- 
sion can be drawn from them; some compare it to the 
chu ma (Boehmeria), others to a thistle. 
The drawing in the Ch. [XI, 33] sub su twan may be 
intended for Dipsacus. 
Tatar., Cat., 49:—Su tuan. Rad. Cardui seu Dipsact. 
In the Peking mountains su twan is Dipsacus japonicus, Miq. 
P. Smira, 64 :—Su twan or Jj] Bf Chuan tuan, Cirsium 
lanceolatum, an imaginary identification. 
Henry, Chin. pl., 164 :—In Hu pei su tuan = Dipsacus 
asper, Wall. 
| Cust. Med., p. 340 (46) :—Su tuan exported 1885 from 
Canton 240 piculs—The Cust. Med. mentions the Ch‘uan 
[Sz ch‘uan] su tuan as imported into several Chinese ports.” 
a In Japan 3 BR is Lamium album, L. So moku, XI, 
Comp. also Bot. sin., II, 118. 
_ “The Hankow list of medicines.— Customs Med., p. 66 (14) mentions 
it (1,610 piculs) as Ch‘uan tan J\| IH. See Alphabetical Indew of Customs 
BAe), No. 474, for the various popular names given to Hsii-tuan.— 
A. Henry, 
It is stated there that it comes from Han kow and Shang hai, but 
‘Neither the Ch'uan su tuan or the su tuan are mentioned as articles of 
*xport in the Han kow list, and in the Shang hai list we find, P. 138 (21), 
that 1,810 piculs of Ch‘uan su tuan were imported to Shang hai from Han 
Kow and other ports, 
